Mobility Becoming Migration: Understanding Youth Spatiality in the Twenty-First Century

Cairns, David

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-64235-8_3

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“…Another aspect of mobility in the twenty-first century is that migration can be relatively unselfconscious, to the point of feeling almost accidental or unexpected (see Cairns, 2021). This is not the same as saying that migration is unplanned.…”

Section: The Migration Decisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Part of the complexity of twenty-first century migration relates to the idea of a migration trajectory being comprised of fragments of mobility as introduced in the previous chapter (Cairns, 2021). Rather than face a definitive choice at only one point in time, individuals need to make interlocking decisions over a sustained period, a process that may involve a great deal of circulation between different locations, and stays at home and abroad.…”

Section: Mobility In Piecesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Migration Decision-Making, Mobility Capital and Reflexive Learning

Cairns

2021

The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration

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Section: The Migration Decisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Mobility In Piecesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration Decision-Making, Mobility Capital and Reflexive Learning

Cairns

2021

The Palgrave Handbook of Youth Mobility and Educational Migration

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“…Developments within higher education urge us to look at fragmented, accelerated, and multiple experiences of mobility beside one-off stays abroad (Czerska-Shaw & Krzaklewska, 2021a ; Cairns, 2021 ; Robertson et al 2018 ). This focus is especially relevant in the case of students using mobility programs as much as they can during the time spent in higher education.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Therefore, little is known about the differentiation between one-time or multiple users. Indeed, analyzing separated episodes without this differentiation in mind prevents us from capturing their meaning within a broader educational trajectory (Cairns, 2021 ).…”

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Erasmus students’ motivations in motion: understanding super-mobility in higher education

Cuzzocrea

Krzaklewska

2022

High Educ

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This paper looks at youth mobility as an ongoing, dynamic, processual experience in the making of an educational trajectory. By exploring the experiences of students who have undertaken more than one mobility experience under the Erasmus + program, we reflect on how underlying motivations change over the course of subsequent mobility experiences. In contrast to existing research, where the focus has been on reported motivations for one-off mobility experience, we discuss the latent motivations driving super-mobile educational trajectories. In doing so, we observe the ongoing reconfiguration of these trajectories through the concept of spatial reflexivity, which results in articulated and augmentative dynamics over time. Methodologically, the paper is based on qualitative material collected in person and online with such mobile young people across Europe.

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Party penalty or party premium? ‘Party Swedes’ in Norway and their income before, during, and after migration

Monti,

Tønnessen

2024

Population Studies

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Young adults crossing borders between wealthy countries for work and adventure is an under-studied group of international migrants. In this paper, we use a unique combination of full population register data from both Sweden and Norway to explore the so called 'Party-Swedes' -young people emigrating from Sweden in 2010-12 to work in Norway. We follow them and their median income before leaving Sweden as well as during their stay in Norway and after possible return to Sweden. Additionally, using individual level data, we model selection into migration and return, as well as income levels after return. This enables us shed light on several theories and concepts in international migration research, such as those on selection into emigration and return, income maximization vs. target earning and concepts related to youth migration, such as the gap year within a context of liquid migration. Overall, our results suggest that in economic terms, the 'party penalty' seems clearly larger than the 'party premium'. Even if these young Swedes earned well while staying in Norway, this did not translate into higher income than among their non-migrating peers after returning to Sweden. Additionally, a pronounced income drop the year after return and results showing that migrants rather postpone than abstain post-secondary education, speak of the youth migration to Norway as a 'period of delay' within the transition to adulthood.

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Mobility Becoming Migration: Understanding Youth Spatiality in the Twenty-First Century

Cited by 8 publications

References 26 publications

Migration Decision-Making, Mobility Capital and Reflexive Learning

Migration Decision-Making, Mobility Capital and Reflexive Learning

Erasmus students’ motivations in motion: understanding super-mobility in higher education

Party penalty or party premium? ‘Party Swedes’ in Norway and their income before, during, and after migration

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